Former War Crimes Tribunal Judge Dies

Published 2:46 pm, Monday, April 25, 2016

Wang Tieya, a former judge at the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, has died in Beijing after a long illness, the court said Wednesday. He was 89.

He died Sunday. A tribunal spokeswoman said the court had not been told the cause of death.

Wang began his career as a law professor in China in 1940, later becoming chairman of the political science department at Beijing University. He was China's legal adviser at the United Nations in 1950, and taught at Columbia Law School as a visiting professor during much of the 1980s.

He was sworn in at the U.N. tribunal in the Hague in November 1997, and retired in March 2000 due to ill health.